[Python-Dev] Re: proposal: add basic time type to the standard library (original) (raw)

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:30:29 -0500

On 26 Feb 2002 at 17:48, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

Doesn't Java have separate formatting objects? You decide which format object you need based on the localication context, then you pass in the timestamp/date/money/whatever thingie and the format object knowws how to render that data representation in the appropriate localization.

Yeah. In an optimization gig I had a couple years ago, I had them take out their use of the fancy format objects. It took 7,000 calls to print a date time according to the trace.

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